The story “Woman Hollering Creek” is about a woman named Cleófilas, a lover of telenovelas, who married a man named Juan Pedro Martínez Sánchez. At first, Cleófilas thought her life would be perfect and follow the same structure such as the telenovelas she watched once she married a man. However, it was the exact opposite because she had married an abusive man who would cheat on her. When she was taken to the hospital with her second child, the nurses saw the signs of abuse and one of the nurses, Graciela, called her friend Felice to take Cleófilas back to Mexico to her father. As Cleófilas was on her way, she was fascinated by Felice and made her happy to be away from her husband.…
“I bet there were a lot of people mad at Shakespeare, too, but aren 't we all glad that he wrote Hamlet?" Yolanda 's sisters said in trying to make their tight situation with their little sister Yolanda just a little bit lighter. Even during the days the Garcia family had resided in the Dominican Republic, and Yolanda had always had a cause to tell her stories in either fact or fiction form. The family had to be cautious in the dictatorship, which in turn, had caused many sleepless nights in the Garcia household. When the family had immigrated to the United States her mother still had to worry about the stories that Yolanda would go on to write. Would she have to wait around for a social worker to stop by the house if Yo were telling her fiction stories at school? Yolanda had to write her stories about the…
Second, the relationships the authors had with their teachers were different. Rodriguez’s relationship with his teachers was one that really helped him succeed. Rodriguez’s teachers were dedicated to him and wanted to give him all the information he asked. Richard took advantage of his teacher’s knowledge by always asking questions. He…
in history and poetry. At the age of fourteen, he was sent away to school, and…
America 's most popular writers for young people, including adults and children (About). His life was…
Maurice Kenny and Mary TallMountain led very similar lives, and both become writers. However, the way they became who they are today, took place on two very different parts of that path to become a writer. In Maurice Kenny’s “Waiting at the Edge: Words Towards a Life” and Mary TallMountain’s “You Can Go Home Again,” both authors illustrate their paths and at times they were inspired. Maurice Kenny’s past shows that he has a wandering personality, while Mary TallMountain is more driven toward her goals. These wandering and driven personalities are all expressed in both authors’ childhoods, their relationship with their fathers, and in their writing itself.…
In the short story, Daughter of Invention, the author Julia Alvarez also uses books and writing to help her succeed and “save her life”. When her family comes to America, she does very well in school, and she is asked to write a speech for a school assembly. When she is finally able to write the speech, her father fears her teachers will find her words disrespectful and destroys her speech. Her mother, who loves to invent, helps her write a new speech and also helps her begin her career as a writer. The two authors’ stories are similar that without the influence of books, reading and writing in their childhoods, their lives as adults would be drastically different than what they are now.…
Looking at two essays, “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and me” by Sherman Alexie, and “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass, comparisons between the two are greatly visible. Both of these stories take an in depth look at these two young men’s lives, as we focus on what these stories are trying to tell, and what message(s) are trying to get across. Not only do these two authors share similarities in upbringing, but they also share the same determination when it comes to educating themselves on their own and proving to others that ignorance truly is bliss.…
Overview: For this assignment you will write an autobiographical narrative based on your past literary experience that communicates insight about yourself as a reader and/or writer to your audience (in this case, your instructor and your classmates). Your essay should center around one remembered event and/or one remembered person. It should not be several small anecdotes combined into one essay, although you may refer to these in your essay. You may consider places, family traditions, teaching methods, school experiences, classes, assignments, or anything else from your past that has helped shape your literacy. You will want to make sure that your essay explains how your chosen topic changed you in some way. Use detail, description, and/or dialogue to tell your story compellingly and vividly. To get started, we have read and will continue to read and discuss both professional and student narratives. As a group and individually, we’ll look for common factors that help these narratives succeed as both powerful stories and conveyors of personal knowledge.…
their works were master pieces of literature yet the new generation of youth needs different forms of learning which are unconventional and attractive for the children like…
In short, he comes to feel that learning is a passive process that someone else does to you instead of something you do for yourself”. Admittedly, the instruction of teachers make student’s acknowledge process become submissive. However, teacher’s escort is provided for orienting students towards better life’s understanding together with developing lateral thinking to set the solid background for their future career. In Nicholas Gage’s story about an inspirational teacher who brings a grim milestone to his life, he said “she was the one who directed my grief and pain into writing, and if it were not for her, I wouldn’t have become an investigate reporter and foreign correspondent, recorded the story of my mother’s life and death in Eleni and now my father’s story in A Place for Us. She was the catalyst that sent me onto journalism and indirectly caused all the good things that came after”. Obviously, from a refugee who used to be considered as mentally disability with full of despondency becomes a successful man, the teacher’s contribution can’t be underestimated. If it hadn’t been Miss Hurd who encouraged and inspired Nicholas Gage, he would have still be a (vô dụng) man. If it hadn’t been school where he was nurtured carefully, he might have been a worker exploited his young and strength. This…
Being born to a highly educated family in July 1995, I became familiar with the world of books and reading from the earliest days of my childhood. As I matured, my reading matured with me. Gradually, the children books turned into youth novels and eventually they gave their place to literary masterpieces. As time passed I realized that within these readings, a sense of curiosity has rooted in my personality that lead to being accepted in Iranian national Olympiad and attending one of the best schools in my country, Mofid2, where I was officially awarded as the “Bookworm of the school”. Mofid2 is well known by the distinctive method of teaching that is based more on experience and observation than just sticking…
"Summer Solstice" is a short story that has received recognition both critical and praising. Written by Nick Joaquin, the story takes place in 1850s Philippines during the festival days of St. John. There is a pro-woman feel to the story, which has garnered a lot of debate and attention considering the setting is in a time where women must be submissive. In this analysis, learn about the setting, the themes and symbolism that this short and interesting story incarnates.…
After her mother died and her father could no longer support her she become a governess; reading and studying in her own time to quench her thirst for knowledge. A passion she never lost.…
Nick Joaquin's "The Woman Who Had Two Navels" revolved around the upper middle class expatriates' consciousness during the American period of colonization. It portrayed every character's struggle to maintain their "selves" in a foreign setting like Hongkong. It can also be defined as coming to terms with the political consciousness during that period. The novel also contained mixtures of hatred, love, anger, insecurities, and sufferings that manifest in the realities of life making the flow of the story more provocative and appealing to the audience.…